“Much that we had appreciated about one another had been left unsaid. In humor, in life and in love, we had understood.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Ninjas are far more important to science than anyone realises. If we could capture one to study, I think most of science’s… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“What do I do?" Asked the princess. "You keep your head down." She looked at me petulantly. "Like hell I will. If… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“The youthful stationmaster wore a Blue Spot on his uniform and remonstrated with the driver that the train was a minute late,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Nasil and Owen transport organs for transplant these days—and deliver takeout." "I hope they don't get those mixed up.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?' 'Wow,' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Cucumbers are technically a fruit and in the same family as pumpkins, melons and squash, so it may benefit those markets, although,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Said by Colin the dragon: "It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“I think that you could have used your vast intellect far more usefully by serving mankind instead of stealing it. -Mycroft "Where's… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
